Her character as a woman is somewhat different from Effie's. ... Iva was seen as a suspicious character in film as well. ... Sam said to Brigid, "Since I got something on you, I am not sure that you wouldn't put a hole in me someday! ... He would have looked you up and down and licked his lips and have gone grinning from here to ear and you could have stood as close to him as you like in the dark and put a hole through him that evening." ... The male characters took on their position as masculine characters as the feminine characters came into the story. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

It is the fundamental make-up of each girl's character. ... Before Chicken Little appeared, the girls had been playing in the mud digging separate holes. Without even speaking, both suddenly began trying to make their individual holes a larger single hole (p 65). ... (p.170) This passage reveals that the original binary opposite characters is no longer very different. ...

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LEGO, which recently passed Mattel as the worlds largest toy maker, was one of the first companies to adopt the movement of marketing certain toys toward certain genders. As seen on television and known by children of both genders worldwide, LEGO's are a children's favorite. The creators of LEGO ha...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Season of Migration to the North is entirely filled with sex and the degrading of women as merely bodies and holes in which men can "mount"(77). ... "(33) Are the encounters between the characters therefore unavoidable. ... Are these characters merely playing out the only roles they can, given the circumstances? ...

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• Grade Level: High School